Re: 8.4 release planning

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Yeah, people like certification, but they also like products that work.
> >> Did you stop reading before getting to my non-security-based complaints?
> 
> > I read them, but I suspect they are issues that can be addressed.  How
> > would any of this affect join removal, anyway?
> 
> It would prevent us from making optimizations that assume foreign key
> constraints hold; which is a performance issue not a covert-channel
> issue.

Well, only when sepostgresql = on.

I would imagine Oracle has exactly the same issue.

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